Free Cinema – UK
Direct Cinema – USA/Canada
Cinema Verite – France (French phrase lierally meaning ‘True Film’
Richard Leacock
Michel Brault
Gilles Groulx
Robert Drew
Jean Rouch
D.A Pennebaker
Albert & David Maysles
Fred Wiseman
Barbara Kopple
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue10/reviews/cinemaverite/
- Documentary genre that originated between 1958 & 1962
- Capture Reality and represent the truth
- Question relationship between reality and cinema
I thought that all of these were just different terms for cinema verite but I read that direct cinema is supposed to be stricter than cinema verite because its more strictly observational.
Robert Drew spoke about the differences saying that cinema verite is more intruding, between the two there was a contradiction. Direct cinema (Drew & Leacock) -
- Two people
- Unobtrusive
- Capturing the moment
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